Ethnic Minorities and People of Color

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Official Title of this Community: Ethnic Minorities and People of Color

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What is this place? A safe space for underrepresented peoples and peoples of color to talk, chill, and vibe.

What are the basic rules of the community?

Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines. Non negotiable. This is the bedrock and mods will make decisions with this always in mind.
This community is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This is a safe space where such people can freely discuss their struggles, insight, and thoughts without fear. If you are not, we respectfully ask you do not post or comment here. A future community will be established to allow for racial discussions with a mixed userbase. However, remember, comments here must still respect Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines.
Irony Racism is still racism. Racism is bad m'kay? We will treat irony racism and bad faith racist satire as racism. Will wield the ban hammer accordingly.
No sectarianism: This is an identity channel not a channel for you all to complain about why XYZ isn't the "one true leftism". Take that to another place.
Stupidpol is not allowed. Stupidpol is class reductionist. We are an identity community. Thinking like stupidpol ignores the struggles of the oppressed, their voices, and their need for unique support. Nothing says oppression more than someone saying that the identity you have is "not real" and that if you only thought like them you'd see what your "real" identity is. Mods reserve the right to ban users and content who promote stupidpol, stupidpol memes, and other class reductionist thinking.

FAQ

I don't look XYZ and/or sometimes I can pass as white so I don't know if I can post here. Can I?

This place is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This includes those of mixed heritage and those who may be "white" but are of an ethnicity that is a minority in their area (i.e. Kurds, etc) If you've experienced oppression due to your identity that is not based on sexual / gender identification, you are welcome here.
Moreover, for our American audience, we have people from around the world who are "white" but are oppressed due to being a minority in their country. They are and should be welcomed here.

What can I post?

Anything you think is relevant to the mission of this community. Things will evolve over time.
Topics and things relevant to EM and POC.

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[People of Spice]: Food recipes so others can taste your culture
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[News]: Vids/podcasts/websites that talk about current events relevant to EM and POC

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EM POC Weekly Thread 1/13/25 (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello em poc comrades!! How are we all doing? Are we doing anything interesting this week? Any fun reads lately? I’ve been working on writing a communist fantasy series based inspired by the Chinese Revolution and a lot of my reading lately has been research for that, which also doubles as theory and history reading haha

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been working on writing a communist fantasy series based inspired by the Chinese Revolution and a lot of my reading lately has been research for that, which also doubles as theory and history reading haha

This sounds incredible! I've been interested in doing something like this for a while. What does your reading list look like?

I've been reading some of the more popular Le Guin works. She's incredible, dunno why I waited till now. I've also been volunteering. It feels good to help and helps with my mental state (which is bad).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Thank you! I'm definitely having fun. Most of my reading has been piecemeal but there's a bunch of things I'm reading from and I'll get through everything eventually. In the reading list I have: Peasant Life in China by Fei Xiaotong, The Chinese Conquer China by Anna Louise Strong (and I'm probably going to read some of Strong's other works on China too, like The Rise of the Chinese People's Communes and One Fifth of Mankind), Fanshen by William Hinton, Guerrilla Warfare by Guevara, and a whole lot of Mao. My other big reading plan this year is to finally read Capital.

I listened to an audiobook of Red Star Over China last year and that really influenced the direction I decided to take the story. The basic idea of an anticapitalist fantasy seires was already in my head before then but I got really inspired by Snow's descriptions of the Chinese revolution in Yan'an. CGTN documentaries also helped (and my mom has been trying to get me to watch a TV series about the Long March for a while, which I haven't gotten around to yet, lol.)

Le Guin is awesome, I keep starting her books and not finishing them though (which is my worst reading habit, I have a tendency to forget to pick a book back up if I get distracted from it.) Glad you're volunteering too!